Byron Bay Light House, NSW, Australia.

The most easterly point of the Australian Mainland

The headland Cape Byron is the eastern-most point (28°37′58″S, 153°38′20″E) of the continent of Australia. It has a lighthouse on it, as well as a walking trail and several look-outs, and is an excellent location to watch the migration of Humpback Whales. It is located in the town of Byron Bay. Image File history File links Cape Byron Lighthouse File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Cape Byron Lighthouse File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x3072, 1508 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Cape Byron User:Mike Switzerland Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x3072, 1508 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Cape Byron User:Mike Switzerland Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1365, 394 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Cape Byron Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1365, 394 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Cape Byron Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... The bay at San Sebastián, Spain A headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. ... The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ... This article is about non-human migration. ... Binomial name Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) Humpback Whale range The Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, is a mammal which belongs to the baleen whale suborder. ... Tallow Beach looking south from the lighthouse Byron Bay with sugar cane burning in the distance Sunrise at Byron Bay Byron Bay is a town in the state of New South Wales on the eastern most point of the mainland of Australia. ...

It was named by British explorer Captain James Cook when he passed it on 15 May 1770, to honour John Byron who circumnavigated the globe in the HMS Dolphin in 1764-66. ^[1] James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... Battle of Chesma, by Ivan Aivazovsky. ... John Byron (November 8, 1723 – April 10, 1786) was a British vice-admiral. ... HMS Dolphin was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. ... 1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1766 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

References

1. ^ Ray Parkin, H. M. Bark Endeavour, Miegunyah Press, second edition 2003, ISBN 0-522-85093-6, page 221.

Byron Bay is the locationof the comedy/cooking show ByronBayChef.com [1] Ray Parkin (6 November 1910 – 2005) was an Australian writer, amateur artist, and self-taught historian, noted for his memoirs of World War II and a major work on Captain Cooks Endeavour voyage. ... Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne (Australia). ...